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E. A. SISSON.

POCKETED CARRIERl APPLlcATloN FILED sEPT`.25.191B.

l1.3 1 01,377 Patented July 15, 1919.

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THE COLUMBIA PLANoGrz/wu co., WASHINGTON. n. c.

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EUGENEI A. SISSON, Fy VVORESTER',y MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOIM BY MESNE,

ASSIGNMENTS, T0 MILLS4 WOVEN CARTRIDGE BELT COMPANY, OF WORCES- TER, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MASSACHUSETTS.

POGKETED CARRIER.

Speccatonv of Letters Patent.

Patented July 15, 1919.

Application led September 25, 1918. Serial No. 255,547.

fication, reference being had therein 4to the accompanying drawings. n

The invention `has relation to pocketed carriers of the class comprising thoseV which are used for holding and carrying cartridges.

The general object of the invention is to solve the problem of satisfactorily combining with a pocleted carrier having one or more pockets of normal size, one or `more lcoveredv pockets of the character required for accommodating the magazines of automatic pistols.k The separately-formed pocket-pieces provided with covered pockets for such purpose which heretofore have been applied to carriers such as aforesaid have constituted cumbrous, bulky, inconvenient, and unsatisfactory additions.

The invention consists. essentially in a carrier having woven upon the band or body-portion thereof, alongside one or more pockets of a normal size, one or more supplemental narrow vertically elongated pockets adapted to contain a pistol magazine and provided with a cover or covers permanently attached to said band or body portion.

Pocketed carrier-webs embodying the invention are more conveniently, expeditiously, and otherwise advantageously produced if the pistol magazine pockets do not exceed in total depth the width of the band or body-portion on which they are formed. In such case the pistol-magazine pockets are proportioned so as to contain only the lower portion, say two-thirds, of the length of a pistol-magazine. When the pistol-magazine pockets are thus proportioned, which in some respects is advisable, the cover-flaps respectively are provided with a long shankportion equaling in length vertically the exposed upper portion, approximately onethird of the length of a pistol-magazine. When in its closed and fastened condition a cover-Hap made to provide such long shank-portion extends upward above the body or band-portion of the carrier in the complete .protection to the portion `of the pistol-magazine which stands up above` the top ofi'ts pocket within this loop, the cover- Hap preferably is made of hood or boX- shape so as by its side flanges to inclose such portion of the pistol-magazine.

An embodiment ofthe invention is illustrated in the drawings, in which latter,"

Figure l is an isometric of a portion of a carrier containing the said embodiment.

Fig. 2 is a View of the supplemental pocketin side elevation, with the band or body-portion of the carrier in vertical section alongside the s ad pocket, and with the cover-Hap closed down over the pocket and fastened.

Having reference tothe drawings,- The carrie| that is partly shown therein is `of the well-known class in which the pockets are woven upon the band or bodyportion 1, so that they are integral there-- with. Two narrow, vertically elongated, supplementalv pockets, 2, 2, are formedupon said band or body-portion in this instance, in addition toV the pockets 3, 3, of normal size.l `The latter pockets are shown as of ordinary proportions suitable to hold cartridges in clips, although it is not essential to the invention that the pockets 3, 3, should be utilized for holding cartridges. The pockets 3, 3, are shown provided with coverflaps 4, 4, which as usual are made fast by their inner ends to the top of the body or band-portion l and are adapted to fold over the pocket-tops. Such cover-flaps are shown as having applied thereto the socket-members 5, 5, of fastener-devices of the glovefastener type, for lengagement with stud- Inembers 6 carried by the pocket-fronts.

The supplemental pockets 2, 2, of this embodiment of the invention do not exceed in depth the width of the band or bodyportion l. Consequently the procedure in weaving the same upon the band or bodyportion is equally simple with that in weaving ordinary pockets, and is without the complications incident to the production of pockets of depth exceeding the said width. Preferably, though not necessarily in the case of all embodiments of the invention, a single cover-flap 7 is provided for the two narrow ockets 2, 2. The inner end of such `coverkap is attached permanently to the carrier, in this instance by having the' attachin end of the shank-portion 7a of the coverap inserted into the same housingslit in the top of the carrier that receives the attaching ends of the cover-flaps 4, a, of the other pockets, and secured therein by the line 8 of fastenings, usually stitches. Fastener-members like those of the other pockets are shown combined with the pockets 2, 2, and their cover-Hap. On account of the width of the saidcover-lap it is furnished with two socket-members 5a, 5a, applied at opposite sides of mid-width thereof for coperation with stud-members 6a, 6, applied to the fronts of the respective pockets 2, 2.

As mentioned hereinbefore, the pockets 2, 2, are proportioned so that they contain only the lower portion, in this case about two-thirds, of the length of the pistol-magazines 9, 9, which are placed Within such pockets, leaving about one-third of the length of the respective magazines exposed above the tops of the pockets 2, 2, when the latter are uncovered. The shank-portion 7a of the cover-flap 7 is correspondingly elongated to equal in length this upstanding portion of the length of the magazines, as'

indicated best in Fig. 1, so that when the said cover-flap is closed down over the pockets and their contained magazines the cover-flap forms an upstanding loop over said portion of the magazines. The preferred hood or box-shape of the cover-Hap 7 isshown in the drawings, its side-anges 7b, 7", being shown best in Fig. 1, and the gated pockets corresponding vertically with l the width of the said portion, adapted to contain the lower portion of a pistol magazine, and provided with a cover-Hap` for the said pocket or pockets made with a long shank-portion equaling in length the exposed upper portion of the length of the said magazine.

2. A woven pocketed carrier having woven 'upon the band or body-portion thereof one or more wide pockets of normal size, and one or more narrow vertically elongated pockets corresponding vertically with the width of the said portion, adapted to contain the lower portion of a pistol magazine, and provided with a cover-flap 'for the said pocket or pockets made with a long shankportion equaling in vlength` the exposed upper portion of the length of the said magazine, and also made of hood or boX shape to protect laterally by its side flanges the upstanding portion of a magazine.

In testimony whereof I afx my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EUGENE A. SISSON. Witnesses:

ETHEL' L. RICE, ALICE M. TISDALE.

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